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Unhinged 2: Til the Flame Burns Out	By : nikki13088 Category: Harry Potter > Het - Male/Female > Draco/Ginny Views: 3348 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Her legs buckled beneath her as she ran; her calves throbbing and spasming as she pushed through the pain and kept barreling through the thick woods. She jumped over tree trunks and large rocks that blocked her path as quickly as she could to put as much distance between her and the group of people on her heels.
A spell flew past her and came so close to hitting her that it made her spin around and fall to the ground. She felt Jake pull her roughly up as they continued running. The only thing Ember kept her eyes on was Scorpius' tight grip on Ava as he ran ahead of them. She turned to make sure James had Bella's little hand firmly grasped as he too dragged her as quickly as he could through the thick leaves and crowded tree branches. She watched Harper running ahead of her as she too, even struggled to maintain a quick pace as she grew tired.
She was exhausted, it had been almost two days since they were able to rest, ever since, they had been running and were only able to lose them for half hours at a time. They would only take a few minutes to rest and catch their breath before they kept moving. Whether it was walking just to stay on the move or a full-on chase to get away from Adwell's men.
"I can't run anymore, I just can't!" Ellie cried out as she collapsed to her knees on the ground.
Jake ran back and scooped her up like a rag doll and kept running. Adrenaline ran through them all as they were determined to lose the people chasing them. Ava was crying the entire time as she too grew restless from all the running Scorpius was doing with her.
"Ember, has yours worn off yet?" Scorpius yelled back to her as they kept running.
"No!" she yelled out as she desperately tried to fight off the effects of the disabling charm they hit her and Scorpius with.
Scorpius suddenly skidded to a halt as a bit of a steep drop came up. He gripped Ava to him with one hand and used the other to steady himself as he slowly started to descend. It was a spell that grazed his hand against the tree he was gripping as leverage that made him let go and start tumbling to the bottom. His hands tightly gripped Ava's head and limbs to his body as he desperately tried to shelter her as he fell.
He hardly had a chance to call out a warning to the others before he saw Ember completely miss the drop and fell to the bottom with everyone else behind her. He heard a loud growl of pain erupt from Ember as she hit the ground and grabbed her shoulder.
Before he went over to help her, he was trying to calm Ava down as she was wailing from the fall they all just endured. Her face had a cut on it and she was a little bruised up, but he knew she would be ok.
"Are you guys ok?" he asked, walking over to help Ember stand.
"It's my shoulder." Ember hissed out in pain, tears in her eyes.
Jake ran over to help her up as Scorpius went back to clutching Ava to his body as she continued to scream.
"We need to keep moving," Jake said softly to her.
She nodded.
"Aurora, what about you? Are you ok?" Scorpius asked her.
James was helping her stand and she gave a small limp. "I'm fine, I think I just twisted my ankle. I can push through it," she reassured him.
Scorpius gave a quick nod before he looked down at Ava and placed a comforting kiss on her head before he started running again. They ran for another twenty minutes before half of them started slowing down, their running turning into walking. Harper stopped altogether as she rested her hands on her knees to catch her breath.
"I'm done, I can't anymore, just have them take me too," she said as she fell to the ground in a bed of leaves.
"That's not an option," Scorpius said firmly as he walked over and pulled her up.
"Why not? It was for Riley." she snapped.
"That was different!" Ember shouted, her guilt surfacing at the mention of Riley's name. "Now let's keep moving," she said, her voice cracking with whimpers of pain from her shoulder.
Scorpius gave a quick look around to see if anyone had caught up to them in the distance. When he didn't see anyone he handed Ava over to Ellie and made his way over to Ember.
"Let me see it," he said to her.
She just stared at him, she just wanted to keep moving and thought about telling him to just forget it, but the pain was too much. She gave a defeated sigh before she pulled her long fiery strands back so he could look at her injury.
"Yeah, that's dislocated," he said confidently.
"So you're a doctor now?" Ember snapped at his cockiness.
He smirked at her. "No, but I'm smart and most of the information I seem to contain is useless, boring things, however, one of them is knowing how to pop this sucker back into place," he said, looking at her.
"You've done this before?"
"No, but I've read about how to do it and I've seen Raven do it at the hospital once. How hard could it be?"
"So that's knowing how to do it?" She snapped again.
"Ok, fine, I'll leave it." he shrugged, getting ready to walk away. "Alright guys, let's keep mov-"
"Fine!" Ember yelled out.
Scorpius turned back to her with a smug look on his face.
"Why the hell do you look a little too excited about this?" Ember asked him.
"What? I'm not, I just thoroughly enjoy putting my knowledge to the test," he said before he gently touched her shoulder. "Ok, let's try this way first," he mumbled to himself as he took her arm. "Just let me know as soon as it starts hurting while I'm doing it."
Ember rolled her eyes before she nodded and watched him bend her arm slightly and then turn it to the side. She heard him mumble something to himself about a ninety-degree angle.
"Just fuckin pop in back in already!" she yelled as she grew impatient from the pain.
"Relax, I can cause more problems doing it this way if it's not done correctly," he said ignoring her outburst.
"Are you sure that's how you do that?" Jake asked.
"Hey Jake, do me a favor and shut up." Scorpius snapped.
He started to move her arm up over her head when she let out a loud gasp of pain.
"Stop, it hurts too much!" she growled out, tears falling from her eyes.
"I don't want to say I told you so... but..." Jake trailed off.
"That is one of the many correct ways of doing it. It's just not working." he said through clenched teeth.
"No way I've seen." Jake mumbled.
"Then why don't you give it a go." Scorpius said, gesturing for him to take over.
"No, please don't!" Ember yelled out before she turned to look at Jake. "I'm sorry, but if there's one thing I trust most in this world, it's my brother's damn brain... so to put it bluntly... please don't touch me." she said as she winced once more.
He held his hands up to show he wouldn't attempt anything before he watched Scorpius give him a smug smirk.
"Ok, lay down on the ground." Scorpius said. "I guess we'll do it in a way that our dear Jake here is more familiar with."
"What? On the ground?" Ember asked.
"Just shut up and lay down," he ordered.
Jake helped her lower herself onto the ground and Scorpius grabbed her wrist and arm as he took a seat beside her.
"This is a lot harder to do on the ground," he said as he placed his foot against her torso.
"What are you doing?"
"I need traction, now would you just shut up and trust me?" he snapped.
She gave him an apologetic look before she looked over to Jake beside her who she just now realized was holding her hand.
Scorpius started pulling slowly but firmly on her arm, his foot pushing her body away from him as he continued to pull.
Ember closed her eyes tightly in pain and discomfort.
"How will I know when it's-" she let out a painful gasp and then heard a small clunk. "It's in!" she cried out as she felt a great deal of the pain go away.
"Fuck yeah! I wish Raven could have seen this," he said smugly as he looked over at Ember. "Better?"
She gave a thankful nod as Scorpius continued to be impressed by his new accomplishment.
Jake helped her sit up.
"Now for a makeshift sling," Scorpius said, looking around for something until his eyes fell on Jake. "Your overshirt, hand it over," he ordered.
Jake didn't think twice about it before he pulled his button-down shirt off and was left in just a tank top. Ember couldn't believe she was taking in his toned arms and chest at this exact moment. In the middle of everything, how is it that she was thinking back to their night in the bathroom. She finally snapped her eyes back to her brother when he started putting her arm in a sling.
She felt his eyes on her and didn't even look up. "Shut up," she mumbled to him.
"What? I didn't say anything." Scorpius said with a small laugh.
"I hate you," she said through clenched teeth as he finished making her sling and then helped her stand up.
"No you don't, you hate yourself for thinking... well, whatever it was you were thinking right there." he smiled at her.
"Let's keep moving," she said, ignoring his comment.
Ginny stretched her neck up from the spot on the floor she was sitting in to get another look at Harry to see if he was still asleep. She had been anxiously shaking her leg and tapping her hands as she kept making Draco walk over to see if he was breathing.
"Is he-"
"Yes, he's breathing, now please stop shaking so much." Draco snapped.
"Sorry, he's been out for almost two days... what the hell did they do to him?" she said to herself as she ran her hands through her hair.
She looked at the cast on Draco's hand and her stomach sank at the sight of it. He had a few broken bones and fingers along with a fractured wrist from the day he saved her.
"How's your hand?" she asked him.
He held it up and examined the cast on his wrist. "Well, the bruising has turned from a blue and purple to more of a black and purple now," he said with a smirk.
She just shook her head. "I'm sorry, thanks for saving me though," she said with a small smile.
He just stared at her. "You know I almost didn't... couldn't. I was so scared that I was going to lose you," he said softly as memories from the other day filled his head.
She locked eyes with him before they both turned towards the sound of someone entering the room. Draco was surprised to see it was Eve, he hadn't seen her since that one day. His eyes welled with tears when he saw Riley was with her.
"Mum! Dad!" she cried as she ran over to the glass wall separating them.
"Riley, Baby, are you ok?" Ginny asked her, her hands covering the spot on the glass wall where Riley's were.
Eve unlocked Ginny's room to let Riley in. Riley was hesitant at first, not sure if it was a trick or if she was really allowing her to hug her mother. After a few moments, she didn't care and ran into her mother's arms.
As soon as Riley was within reach, Ginny grabbed her roughly and pulled her into a tight hug as she sobbed uncontrollably... they both did. She took in her arm that was in a sling and the bandage she still wore from her surgery and she cried even harder.
"I'm so happy you're ok." Ginny cried.
Eve walked over to one of the computers and pressed something that made the walls dividing the rooms slide away so that Draco could get to Ginny and Riley. It took him a second to realize he could actually walk over and touch Ginny, to have contact with her. After confirming that he wasn't going to walk into a glass wall, he ran forward and scooped them both up in his arms.
The feeling of holding them both gave Draco so much strength and hope. He felt like he already had lost everything, even though he knew the kids were still alive, he always feared for how much longer.
Riley pulled back from them both and stared at her mum. "Mum... Grandpa is dead." Riley cried to her as fresh tears fell down her face.
Ginny's heart broke as she looked at her. "I know baby, it's ok... I know," she said as she grabbed her back into a hug.
Ginny's eyes traveled to Draco's, her fingers laced with his and squeezed his hand tightly. She felt Riley pull back a bit as she was in some discomfort.
"Are you in pain?" Draco asked her.
She nodded through her tears.
"She is due for some pain medication," Eve said. "I will take care of her when I take her back to her room."
"Take her back?" Ginny asked.
"Yes, she can't stay in here with you. She shouldn't even be in here now." Eve stated; her tone firm.
Ginny wanted to argue, but she could tell by the look Eve gave her that there was no negotiating on the subject.
"Riley, listen... do you know where you guys were heading before you got hurt?" Draco asked her.
She nodded.
"Where?"
She was silent and then turned around to look at Eve, who took a few steps back to give them some privacy.
"Mr. Zabini gave them an address to some house that belonged to his family or something. He said he wasn't sure if it was still standing, but we could try to lay low there until we figured out where to go... what to do," she said in a small voice.
Ginny exchanged a curious a look with Draco before she turned back to Riley. "Did Blaise say anything else?"
"No, just that he would try to help."
"He and Raven are missing," Draco said to himself. "So are Hermione and Ron. Riley do you have any idea where they are?"
She shook her head. "Aunt Hermione told us to stay at the Manor and that she was taking us someplace to hide, but she never came and then we were attacked," she explained, her voice cracking as she thought about the past few days and what she had been through.
Ginny grabbed her face in her hands. "Riley, is anyone else hurt?"
"I don't know... after I got hurt... "she trailed off as she started crying again. "Scorpius and Ember... th-they were trying to save me... keep me alive. I remember looking at Ember and I could tell she wasn't sure if I would live." she cried harder. "Then they left me, Mum... they just left me behind."
Ginny tried so hard to hold herself together, the things their children were being faced with was everything she and Draco never wanted them to be exposed to.
"Oh Sweetie, they were trying to get you help... they didn't have a choice. I promise you that they would never have left you if they didn't think you would get help." Ginny reassured her. "You know that right?"
Riley looked at her and then to her father, who nodded in agreement before she also nodded.
"Come on, you have to go back to your room," Eve said suddenly as she saw Crystal on one of the cameras. "My sister and father are on their way there."
Ginny and Draco hugged her tightly once more before Ginny showered her with a few kisses on her cheek. "I love you, baby, everything is going to be ok," she reassured her as she watched Riley follow Eve out of the room.
Once she was gone, Ginny turned to Draco, her fingers still laced with his as she looked down at their hands entwined. She felt his hand caress her cheek as her eyes traveled back up to his. She reached up and grabbed his face to hers, the way he kissed her made her want to melt into a puddle at his feet. How he kissed her firmly but still somehow made it feel so soft was a mystery to her, but it swept her away every time. The taste of his lips almost made her want to ignore the fact that they were locked up in this glass box and rip his clothes off right here.
They both stopped kissing each other and just took in the feel of their bodies together. Ginny wanted to remember this feeling forever of being held by him. She felt him slide a hand under her shirt and rest it against her stomach before he pulled back a bit and looked at her.
"I love you Ginny, so fuckin much it's actually ridiculous."
She let out a small giggle. "No, me loving you back just as much is ridiculous," she said with a small smirk.
Ginny's eyes traveled over to Harry, who looked like he might be waking up. She took advantage of the rooms not being divided and walked over to his bed and took a seat. She went to take his hand when she stopped suddenly.
"Whoa, Draco, look at this," she said gesturing him over.
He walked over and looked at her; her hair was starting to frizz and he too felt the hairs on his arms start to stand up just from being next to Harry. Ginny went to go take his hand in hers.
"No, don't touch him," Draco told her.
She retracted her hand and leaned in a little closer to him. "Harry?"
She watched him slowly open his eyes to look at her, but his pupils were this glowing gold. She could literally see and feel the electricity that was running through him. He barely had his eyes opened all the way before they fell closed again.
"No, Harry, wake up," Ginny said and went to shake him when she was shocked.
She jumped up off the bed and held her hand to her chest before she looked at the small burn down the side of her hand.
"I told you not to touch him," Draco said, grabbing her wrist and looking at it.
"I'm sorry, it was just instinct. What do you think is wrong with him?" she asked as she winced at the pain.
"I have no damn clue, it has to be whatever they did to him the other day."
"But our devices... they are suppose to disable our powers, why isn't it working on him?"
"What the hell is going on?" came Crystal's voice as she walked into the room. "Get back in your rooms... now!" she yelled.
They both walked back over to their rooms before Crystal put the walls back in place. She turned to her father who was behind her along with Eve. "I'm not sure what happened, must've been a glitch or something," she explained.
"This is unacceptable, I trust you both to keep our test subjects separated at all times, do you have any idea how important that is?" Mr. Adwell said to the both of them, his eyes falling on Eve.
She nodded. "Of course."
"Crystal, play the cameras back," he ordered.
"I'm sure it was just a glitch of some-"
"PLAY IT BACK!" Adwell yelled, making them all jump.
Crystal locked eyes with Eve, already knowing it was her who did it. She rewound the security camera to reveal everything Eve had done, her heart sinking a bit.
Mr. Adwell just laughed at the footage before he turned to look at Eve and then to Draco and Ginny. "Must have been nice to see your daughter, I assume?"
They both nodded.
"You must think that perhaps you have someone here in this lab that might help you?"
They didn't say anything, the look of anger on Adwell's face made them afraid to say anything for the sake of everyone. He walked over to Eve and looked at her, she kept her face down, her long dark brown ponytail hung over her shoulder.
"I'm so disappointed in you," he whispered to her.
She went to lift her face to look at him and as she did, she felt the back of his hand hit her with such force she fell to the floor. Crystal went to take a step forward to help her but stayed put as she turned away from the scene before her. She looked over to see Draco staring at her, he could tell she was bothered by her father's actions towards her sister.
"Now get up and meet me upstairs," he ordered before he left the room.
Eve pulled herself up off the floor and wiped the blood from her chin that was dripping from her mouth. Draco and Ginny just gave her a sad look before she took off out of the room with tears in her eyes.
Crystal went to follow her when the sound her name made her stop and turn back to Draco and Ginny.
"How can you be ok with that?" Draco asked her.
"I'm not, but she knows better. I won't be involved in her plans to play nice," she said as she continued walking away.
"You keep telling us that you work for your father, but really all you are is prisoners just like us."
She turned back to him. "A prisoner? I'm not the one locked up without any way out." she snapped.
"Are you so sure about that?"
She just stared at him, his words hitting her hard before she turned and stormed out of the room.
Scorpius wrapped the fabric around the chunk of ice he held in his hand and then grabbed another piece for another large piece of ice he had formed. He walked over to Jake and handed him the makeshift ice pack.
"For your broken finger," he said to Jake. "And for your shoulder," he said to Ember, handing her the other ice pack.
"What about Aurora's ankle?" Ember said as she laid the cold compress against her shoulder.
Scorpius glanced over to Aurora. "I think she'll be fine," he said with a smirk.
They all took a seat on the ground to rest a few minutes before they had to get up and take off running again. There was the sound of thunder in the distance as it started to lightly rain.
"I think Ava is running a fever," James said she he looked at the sleeping baby over his shoulder, her cheeks flushed.
Scorpius walked over and felt her. "Yep, definitely a fever.... unless she's already developing fire powers." he lightly joked.
"Ha.Ha." Ember said sarcastically before she made her way over and felt Ava herself. "This is the last thing we need right now." she sighed in frustration. "Where the hell is that map?" she snapped.
Jake pulled it out from his pocket and unfolded it for her to look at. "We're still pretty far from the house Blaise told us about. If there even is a house still standing," he said softly.
She locked eyes with him for a moment, their intimate encounter together still seemed to go unnoticed. There was just no time for them to discuss anything about their relationship or to even have one in the slightest. All presence of an actual relationship between them was gone right now.
"Well, we have nowhere else to go and since the last place you suggested almost got us all killed and Riley practically left for dead, I rather take my chances on the place Blaise told us about." She snapped angrily before she stormed off ahead.
Jake felt like he was punched in the stomach at Ember's comment. He already felt an extreme amount of guilt over what happened to Riley, but hearing those words from Ember killed him inside.
"She didn't mean that," Scorpius said as he made his way over to Jake.
"I don't blame her if she does... it's true, I never should have brought you guys there." he sighed as he pulled the ice pack back off of his hand and looked at his bruised finger.
"There's a lot of things we never should have done, but we're desperate. Desperate to stay alive... to stay out of the Ministry's grasp... we are bound to make mistakes and rash decisions." Scorpius stated before he walked back over to James and took Ava from him, who was starting to wake up.
Further ahead, Ember was still storming in any direction the adrenaline in her took her until she finally stopped when she realized she should go back. She turned back and could still see the group of them in the distance before she leaned against a nearby tree and slid down it. She was overwhelmed right now with everything going on, she felt so much pressure on herself. Every hour she had to try and keep herself from falling apart, today Scorpius seemed to be the one that was holding himself together better than she was. She was grateful for the connection between the two of them and that he knew they both couldn't fall apart at the same time for the sake of the others.
She heard a branch suddenly snap and jumped to her feet. She looked around to see if she saw anyone, but at first glance there was nobody. She quickly turned to head back to the group when the sound of someone's voice stopped her.
"Don't run... If you do, I will kill you without another thought." the man said.
She froze before she slowly turned to see a man standing there, a wand in one hand and his fingers wrapped around what appeared to be a knife attached to his belt. He looked at her injured shoulder and the bullet graze on her leg.
"You must be exhausted, all of you, I think it's time you finally give up," he suggested.
"Yeah, I bet you do." she turned to look at her brother and the others again.
"Don't even think about it," he warned her.
She just glared at him for a moment before she went to take off running. "SCORPIUS! RUN!" she screamed as loud as her voice would allow her.
She barely took a step before she felt a binding charm hit her and she fell to the ground, the man already on top, straddling her to hold her still in case she broke free of the bind. She screamed again before she felt him hit her hard, the taste of blood filling her mouth.
"SCORPIUS, RUN!"
The sound of Ember's voice made them all jump up from their spot and start running, but Scorpius couldn't run. He watched Ember go down and he ran towards her instead as he quickly handed Ava to Ellie.
He could feel the ice already running through his veins as he neared her. The man saw Scorpius running at him and he pulled his knife out and held it to Ember's throat, making Scorpius stop in his tracks.
"Don't test me, Boy... I won't hesitate," he said.
The man got up and pulled Ember to her feet as she spit out a mouthful of blood. Her eyes locking with Scorpius'. He watched her eyes grow wide when she looked over his shoulder and saw the others were also caught with about a dozen men surrounding them.
"We had no chance, they were everywhere," James said as one of the men forced him to his knees.
"All of you, on your knees and hands behind your head. Any of you try anything stupid... one little snowflake or the slightest flicker of a flame and I will kill one of you." One of the men said.
Ember shook her head as she got to her knees and looked at her brother, this was it... they had failed. They both knew they weren't getting out this... not this time. The man behind Ember paced in front of them and started counting.
"This looks like all of them," he said as his eyes fell on Ellie trying to calm Ava down. "Aw, what's the matter little one?" he said as he walked over and went to take her from Ellie's arms, but she pulled her closer to her.
"Hand her over," he demanded.
Ellie just glared at him. "No," she said firmly.
"I said, hand her over now!" he shouted as he reached forward and roughly tried to grab her from Ellie's grasp.
She felt her baby sister's body slipping through her grasp as another man pulled her hands back as the man finally had a hold of Ava.
"No, Ava!" Ellie screamed before she felt a hard slap hit her face.
Scorpius and each one of them went to jump up from their spot, but when one of the men pointed a wand at James they all stopped.
"Settle down, this is it... you're done, this is the end of your little runaway game. You lost," he said. "Now some cooperation is going to be needed so I can attempt to deliver you all unharmed... or alive." his eyes fell on James again. "But just to give a preview of what to expect if anyone of you decides to pull any of your nifty magic tricks..." he gestured to the man who had his wand pointed at James.
"Crucio." the man said as he gripped his wand and held it straight at James.
James yelled out in pain as he was hunched over, his hands digging into the damp earth for some sort leverage to deal with the pain running through him. The man said the curse again, letting it intensify, making James' yells turn into screams.
Aurora could feel the hair on her body stand up as she gave a horrified side glance at James' squirming body. She could taste metallic in her mouth as a tingling sensation danced across her skin. Bella was crying and screaming for James as Harper held her back from running over to him. Finally, the curse was lifted and she could feel James' powers die down a bit beside her.
The man gave an evil chuckle as he watched the disturbed looks on their faces. "Oh, that's right, you lot aren't familiar with that curse are you?" he said before he looked at Scorpius. "Your father knew that one quite well... all of your parents did." he grinned as he seemed to get lost in a memory. "Ah, that was so long ago... anyway, back to business," he said as he handed Ava over to another man and then walked over to Jake. "Let's lighten the load since you're worthless to us," he said as he pulled out his knife and grabbed a handful of Jake's hair before he pulled his head back and brought the blade up to his throat.
"No! Wait!" Ember yelled, her eyes welling with tears.
The man stopped and looked at her, amusement on his face. "Wait? Now why in the world would I do that?" he said as he moved the knife up to his face and slid it across Jake's cheek making him release a painful hiss as it pierced his skin.
The man walked over to Ember and squatted down in front of her. He used the tip of his knife to lift her face to look at him.
"Ember, right?" he asked her softly.
She looked up at him before she gave a stiff nod, her lips trembling.
He just looked her over for a moment and then turned to glance at Scorpius and James before his eyes fell on Ember once more. "It's amazing... how much you look like them, it's like staring into the past," he said more to himself than to them.
He stood up and grabbed Ember by the arm and dragged her over to the rest of them as he threw her to the ground between Scorpius and Jake. He squatted once more in front them, the bloody blade still in his hand.
"Listen to me Sweetheart," he softly said to Ember as he waited for her to meet his gaze before he continued. "We're going to kill half of you... the orders were to bring you back alive if possible and we're going to pretend that wasn't the case," he said with a small grin. "See, I fought beside your grandfather, Lucius... many of us did," he explained as he gestured to a few of the men around them. "So naturally when Jack Adwell needed a few men that were quite hungry for vengeance, we were the right people. So he will get half and we will kill the rest of you because it's only fair that we get some kind of revenge."
Ember's body was shaking, she was scared, but once again she tried hard to hide it. She couldn't help the few tears that started to seep out onto her face; she honestly wanted to break down into a puddle of her own emotions right now. She gave a side glance at Scorpius, her father's famous sneer was present on his face as he glared at the man before them.
She turned to look at Jake, the blood from his cut was dripping down his face. She gave him a sad look.
"You care a great deal about someone whose father was Lucius' right-hand man. The same man who tried to rape your mother." the man stated.
Every one of them turned to look at Jake, Ember looked at him with wide eyes, she could see he was as equally shocked.
"You have no idea who's son this is? The son of a man who tried to kill your mother... all of your parents. His uncle beat and tortured your father within an inch of his life. That is until your father killed him, he literally ripped his throat out." the man explained before he looked at Jake. "And as for your father... Ginny Weasley killed him." he finished as an amused smile crossed his lips. "Bet you didn't think your parents were capable of something so brutal, huh?" he said looking at Ember and Scorpius.
He pulled off the jacket he was wearing and rolled up his sleeve before taking off a glove he had on. Half of his body all the way up to his neck was scarred with brutal burns.
"This is what your mother did to me eighteen years ago," he said before he reached forward and grabbed Ember by the shirt. "So needless to say I haven't gotten over it yet and since you're practically a spitting image of her, killing you will do just fine." he laughed.
"It's Malfoy." Scorpius suddenly said.
"What?" the man asked as he let Ember go.
"You said Ginny Weasley killed Jake's father, but it's Malfoy now." he casually stated.
The man started to laugh before he walked over to Scorpius. "Do you think I'm playing?"
Scorpius' eyes traveled over to James across the way, he could tell something was off with his powers. He had been watching him try to keep them under control since the Cruciatus curse was lifted. Right now he was just trying to buy them some time, hoping that James would let something slip.
"I don't think you're playing, I just think during your trip down memory lane you forgot that-"
He was cut off when he felt the man's fist hit his face, not once, but twice as he fell to the ground.
"Fuck," Scorpius mumbled out as he spit out a mouthful of blood. "Ok, I get it, you don't like being corrected," he choked out before he felt a hard kick to his stomach.
"Stop!" Ember cried out.
A loud clap of thunder and lightning made them all jump, Ava's crying grew louder at the sound. The man's eyes fell on James and he quickly walked over to him, his wand gripped tightly as he pointed it at him.
"What's wrong with you, Boy?" he said. "Crucio!" he yelled again making James scream out in pain.
A tear slid down Aurora's face as she watched the pain James was going through. Again, she could feel every hair on her body stand up, she could almost hear a buzzing in her ears as that metallic taste came back. She expected at any moment a bolt of lightning to hit her, but the spell was lifted again.
"James?" she softly called to him.
He looked at her, his breathing was heavy and his eyes were nothing like his own as they turned to a shining gold. She felt her heart in her throat as she instinctively crawled away from him.
"Get back to your spot!" one of the men yelled as he grabbed her by the hair, making her let out a whimper of pain.
He was suddenly struck by a bolt of lightning and sent flying across the woods into a tree. All of them were on their feet at this point as their attention was on James and his uncontrollable powers. They all took their chance to run and started scattering about as the thunder and lightning intensified. Scorpius went straight for the man who had Ava, he turned the ground beneath him to ice before it rose up and tightly wrapped around his legs as he let go of Ava. She picked her little body up from the ground and quickly ran into Scorpius' arms before he took off running with her. He flinched as a stream of electricity hit the tree beside him making it blast to pieces. He looked behind him as James was completely taken over by his own powers and he ran for his life.
"James!" Bella cried as Aurora dragged her along by the wrist.
Not only were they running from James, but they still had Adwell's men attempting to capture them as they also ran for cover. Ember was behind a tree tucked into a ball on the ground as lightning shot down all around her, blowing bits of the ground up at her. She felt her adrenaline kicking in and she jumped up and ran out from behind the tree, the flames within her surfacing as she walked straight at James. She threw a fireball right at him, but he had some sort of an electrical barrier around himself and it flew back at her.
"Ember, stop!" Scorpius yelled.
Aurora ran over to help her up as James neared them, she wanted so badly to try and get through to James, but there was no way that was about to happen.
"Ember, he's not right," she said to her.
They both started running again as the rain was now pouring down, the evening sky being illuminated by the constant lightning that sporadically came down around them. Ember was right behind Aurora as they barreled through the woods away from him. She felt someone grab a handful of her hair and pull her back down to the ground.
"You're all not getting away this time." the man said as he straddled her to hold her down.
Aurora went to run back to help Ember, but James was in her path.
"James... it's me, it's Aurora," she said to him, her bright blue eyes staring at him.
The light from the electricity surrounding him was making them sparkle like the two diamonds he always remembered staring into. She swore for a moment he recognized her until a disabling charm suddenly hit him and then another spell that knocked him out cold as he fell to the ground.
"James!" she cried out as she ran to his side.
She barely had a chance to see if he was alright when she felt a binding charm hit her.
"Take Ava and keep running," Scorpius said to Harper, who was beside him.
She nodded without question and started running. He heard Ember screaming as the man on top of her brought his knife up to her neck. She could feel it piercing her skin as he contemplated whether to bring her in alive or kill her right now. Scorpius kicked him hard in the face as he fell off of her and he reached down to help her up. Before he could reach out his hand, the man ran at him again and they both fell to the ground.
They fought for control over the other for a few moments before Scorpius felt the blade cut him, but the adrenaline in him made him numb to the feeling. He swung his fist and took his chance to run and grab the wand he saw across the way. He had just grabbed it when he was slammed into the tree in front of him. The man punched him hard in the stomach and then threw him hard against the tree once more.
"You're dead, Kid," he growled out as he swiped his blade at Scorpius and missed him by a few inches.
Scorpius went to run at him again when the man kicked him in the chest against the tree again.
"You'll give up if you know what's good for you," he said to him as he punched Scorpius in the face.
Once again Scorpius jumped forward at him, this time the man went down and Scorpius started wailing on him. Chaos was all around them, every time Scorpius had the advantage, another one of Adwell's men came out of nowhere.
Ember had taken shelter behind another tree as spells flew past her, she desperately tried to get over to Scorpius to help him. She brought her hand up to her neck where she felt the blade cut her and ignored the large amount of blood that covered her hand. She watched the rain wash it from her skin before she saw she had an opening to run. She barely made it out from behind the tree before a spell knocked her to the ground. She scrambled to get up, but felt someone grab her from behind into a choke hold. She tried with everything inside her to free herself from the man's grip, but she could tell he was much bigger than she was and a lot stronger. She dug her nails into his arm as hard as she could, she tried to move her head enough to headbutt him but nothing was working. She felt her body start to panic and fear filled her as she knew death would soon reach her.
She felt the man stop all of a sudden and she quickly crawled away from him. She saw spells flying all over the place and soon realized someone else was fighting Adwell's men. She couldn't tell who it was, just that there was more than one person and they were wearing what looked like a hooded cloak. She took this opportunity to crawl over to Scorpius and look him over, he had his hand on his side where he was bleeding pretty badly.
"Are you ok?" they asked each other at the same time.
They both watched the scene unfold around them, whoever was helping them was no stranger to magic or fighting. They both scrambled backward as one of the men fell dead in front of them. Another man went to attack Ember and Scorpius again when a knife hit him straight in the back and he fell to his knees and then to the ground. Soon all the chaos stopped and Adwell's men either gave up and apparated away or were lying dead on the ground around them.
Ember stood up and looked at the hooded figure and her eyes went wide and welled with tears when they finally revealed themselves.
"Aunt Hermione?" she whispered before she turned to see who else was with them.
She saw Ron, Blaise and Kingsley pull down their cloaks. She felt this enormous amount of pressure suddenly lift off of her shoulders and she broke down crying. She felt safe somehow seeing them.
Hermione just stared at them, her eyes taking in a young Ginny and Draco... it was like staring into the past. She felt Ember run into her arms and latch onto her tightly as she cried, the rest of her sisters piling around her and Ron.
"You ok?" Ron asked Scorpius, grabbing his face and looking at his tear-filled eyes.
He nodded before he let his uncle pull him into a tight hug.
"Ember where is Riley?" Hermione asked.
Ember pulled back a bit and cried harder as she shook her head. "I... I don't know... w- we left her because she w-was hurt... they took her. I don't k-know if she s-survived." she choked out.
Hermione just pulled her into a tight hug. "It's ok, everything is ok... we're here now," she whispered to her. She looked over at Ron, both of their hearts breaking for every one of them.
"We need to get out of here," Kingsley said as he pulled out what Ember assumed was a Portkey. "Grab a hold everyone." he said a she helped Jake hold up James' unconscious body.
Scorpius went to reach forward, he paused to look at the blood all over his hand before he met Blaise's gaze. He looked away after a moment before he touched the Portkey and felt a tug behind his navel.
Draco started stirring in his sleep before he finally cracked his eyes open to see what had woken him up. The first thing he noticed was the blaring white lights that were always on even at night were out. He sat up and noticed the entire room was dark, his eyes traveling over to Ginny's room to see if she was awake. He could make out a shimmer of her copper strands starting to move before he turned to Harry's room.
"What the fuck?" he mumbled out as he got out his bed.
Harry's room was filled with electricity, silent cracks of lightning danced down around the entire room and traveled up the walls that surrounded him.
"Harry! Wake up!" he yelled as he pounded on the glass.
He soon realized there was no use in trying to wake him, he was still out cold. He took a few steps back and just watched the electricity continue to fill the room. He could see it running through Harry's body.
"Draco?"
He turned to see Ginny standing by her door and she opened it up. "The electricity is out." she said.
Draco quickly ran to his door and opened it, they were both out of their rooms now.
"I wonder how much of this place has lost power. Every secured door should be open, but how do we get Harry out? There's no way we can take him with us like that." he said as he studied Harry's powers once more.
"I can't believe I'm saying this, but... we need to leave him for now. We could help more if we aren't locked up in here." she explained.
As much as it killed them both to do it, they knew they wouldn't get another chance like this. They had absolutely nothing as far as coming up with a way to get out of here so they took what chances they got. They quickly ran over to the door to the lab and quietly pulled it open. Ginny gave one last look at Harry before she felt Draco tug on her wrist and pull her along.
The halls were almost pitch black, they could hardly make out anything in front of them. The only light was that from the elevator up ahead, each floor light illuminating as it made its way up.
"The elevator is still working? That means its not the whole building that's out... just this floor." Draco said. "Which is a problem for us."
"We aren't getting out of here, are we?" Ginny asked him, all hope of actually escaping this nightmare diminishing.
"I'm not giving up that easily." he said as he leaned up against the side of the wall outside of the elevator with Ginny on the other side.
The elevator came to a stop and a small bell sound filled the hall as the doors opened. Crystal walked out of it and Draco punched her hard, the pain in his wrist made him yell out in pain. He knew what kind of powers she had and before she could attempt to use them, he swung his fist again and knocked her out. He grabbed Ginny's hand and ran into the elevator, not noticing that Eve was in the corner watching the scene unfold.
He reached forward and grabbed her roughly by the shirt, he knew she tried to help when she could but he didn't trust her still.
"What floor is Riley on?" he asked her.
She didn't say anything, she just stared at him as her lips trembled with fear.
"WHERE IS SHE?" he screamed in her face.
She stared into his eyes for a moment before she softly choked out. "I'm sorry."
He gave her a confused look at her words before he watched her pupils change to this dark purple and her eyes traveled over his shoulder to Ginny. He went to turn around when Ginny punched him hard in the face. He barely had time to regain his composure before she kicked him hard in the chest against the elevator wall.
"Ginny stop!" he yelled to her as he pushed her away from him.
Her mind was not her own, he knew Eve was controlling her. Ginny swung her fist again at him as he ducked out of the way, her other fist collided with his stomach, knocking the wind out of him. She grabbed him by the hair and brought his face down to her knee before she threw him back onto the ground. She brought her foot up and stomped on his broken wrist as he released a painful scream. She pinned him down to the floor, her face twisted into anger and rage as she wrapped her hands around his throat. Before her hold on him grew tighter she went flying backward into the wall by a spell.
Draco turned to see Crystal wiping her bloody nose off on her sleeve with her wand tightly gripped. She stood over Draco and stared down at him for a moment before she pointed her wand at him.
"I applaud your efforts, but now you're just pissing me off." she said before she shot a spell down at him, making everything go black.
A/N: There you go, I don't know about you guys, but I felt a sense of relief when Hermione and the others finally showed up. Your thoughts on this chapter? What do you think of Ember snapping at Jake like that? What about hearing all the stuff his family has done to hers? I love you guys! I appreciate all your reviews on my chapters and welcome all new ones. It's greatly appreciated.
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